Word: pandemoniums
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...front of the cabin, pandemonium erupted. "One minute I was picking up my bag, getting ready to go," Jessop remembered. "The next minute I could not see my hand in front of my face, and I was screaming for my life." Terrified passengers piled into the aisles and began clawing their way toward the plane's exits. When people discovered that the door over the left wing was blocked by flames, the chaos grew. "People were just on top of each other trying to get out," Mike Mather, 21, of Norwich, said...
...stunned. Striding onto the podium, he demanded to know why the match had been called off. "You knew I wanted to continue," he shouted, shaking his fist. "They are trying to deprive me of my chance." With that, he stormed out of the auditorium. To quell the ensuing pandemonium, an unaccustomed diversion at Soviet press conferences, Campomanes called the players to a private one-hour 45-minute session, after which he announced that Karpov had accepted the decision and Kasparov would "abide by" it. But the young challenger was still furious. Outside the hall, he met with reporters and supporters...
...They were met with wild cheering and applause. The mood in the room soured as Chairman Agrava formally closed the board's hearings. But when Deputy Counsel Bienvenido Tan began reciting the list of suspected conspirators that the majority of the board was recommending for indictment, there was pandemonium in the wood-paneled hall. Friends and strangers alike hugged one another, tossed flowers into the air and struck up a chorus of the once outlawed nationalist anthem Ang Bayan Ko (My Country). The first name on Tan's list was General...
...ring, the bouts are drawing to a close. The final match has dissolved into pandemonium as two sets of burly wrestlers pound one another with knee drops, punches and head bashes. The crowd becomes a mob, chanting in unison, waving American flags, demanding more. Suddenly a gong rings. As the hot, white lights above the ring switch off, fans stream outside into blinding sunshine. Inside, the wrestlers pack up and leave for the night matches in Austin...
...opening to the public. "When the thing is completed, it will not solve anything," says Calcutta's Chief Minister Jyoti Basu, who wants to build an auxiliary railway system to carry people from the subway to their work. Says he: "Without such a railway, there will be pandemonium...